Monthly Archives: November 2014
Risky weather delays lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia
The season was to begin Monday along Nova Scotia’s South Shore and southwestern region, but there was plenty of uncertainty Friday about the weather, said Frank Quinn, area director in Yarmouth for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Read the rest here 23:03
Baker: So Sarah McLachlan hates the seal hunt; what else is new?
If you wanted to get a ticket to see songstress Sarah McLachlan on her two-stop tour through Newfoundland, you’re S.O.L., as the young urbanites like to say.,,some folks around these parts have taken to calling for a boycott of McLachlan. Stop the press! A musician hates the seal harvest! Read the rest here 22:41
Fish Tales: Paul Vitale mulls next step in a fishing life
He is a Gloucester guy, raised up from a Gloucester kid in a Sicilian family, so Paul Vitale came honestly to the water and to fishing as generations of Gloucester kids had done before him. Now 42, Vitale spent his childhood running down to the docks, game for any task that needed doing on his father’s boat that tied up down The Fort. Read the rest here 20:58
Boris Worm, Coming Around Again – ‘Extinction’ of saltwater fish to fishing bandied on social media
Continuous reverences to the Nothing but Jellyfish 2048 dogma that was used in Pews “Oceans of Abundance” to compel Obama to create the National Ocean Policy Bureaucracy Builder, The doom date flicked out of recent angler social media blogs like the Grim Reaper’s scythe: By 2048 all saltwater fish will be extinct due to overfishing, lives! Read the rest here 18:37
Conservationists Are United On Fukushima Threat To Oceans, while Over Fishing is the Real Threat!
These people are cracked! Greenpeace UK ranks “destructive fishing, pollution and climate change” as the leading threats to the oceans, while radiation from Fukushima doesn’t get a mention in its Oceans Defender campaign.” Read the rest here, if you can stand it! 14:45
Spoofed Satellite Feeds Trouble Google’s Eye in the Sky
The new Global Fishing Watch, an ambitious attempt by Google and others to monitor illegal fishing boats globally in real time, faces a technical challenge: Fishing boats operating in non-permitted territories that alter their tracking systems to mask their physical location. Read the rest here 11:35
Calais man who sold pesticide that killed lobsters admits lying to agents
A Calais man waived indictment and pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a false statement to federal agents in connection with the illegal use of a pesticide in Canada five years ago. Read the rest here 09:31
NSCC School of Fisheries providing education, training and safety
YARMOUTH – When Marcel d’Entremont starting fishing on a fish dragger in 1981,, “My safety training was this: the owner of the boat looked at me and said, ‘The life raft is on top of the house, the immersion suit in the bow is mine. Don’t touch it.’” Read the rest here 09:13
Seals gobble half a million fish – commercial fisheries report almost 500K in losses
Professional fishermen in Finland are up in arms about damages to their catch and equipment from grey seals. Recent figures from the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute estimate that the market value of fish lost to seals is 466,000 euros. (578,820.87 US Dollars) Read the rest here 09:00
Council closes scallop beds; raises crew levels
The closure will cost millions of dollars in the short term, but are predicted to have a payoff in years beyond 2017 when the areas can reopen and the grown scallops harvested. The council also voted to raise the maximum crew levels aboard scallop boats from seven to eight to allow boats to train new crew members. Read the rest here 08:32
Fieldwood Energy reported an explosion on its Echo Platform in the Gulf on Thursday; 1 dead, 3 injured
The bureau said in a statement that the platform was not in production at the time of the explosion and damage was limited to the area. The statement said there was no indication that any oil had spilled into the ocean. Read more here 23:57
Plan to rebuild south coast cod stocks announced
A rebuilding plan for cod stocks off the south coast of Newfoundland was announced Wednesday in conjunction with a 15 per cent increase in the total allowable catch (TAC) for the upcoming fishing season. Read the rest here
Nova Scotia: Lobster fishery predictions suggest lower quality this year
Nova Scotia’s largest lobster fishery is set to open next week, but there’s concern the catch could yield soft shelled lobster and scientists blame warm ocean temperatures. Read more here 23:33
On the Pipe? The Freaks at EDF that brought you Catch Shares now wants you monitored 100% following THEIR failure!
Matt Mullin said the EDF supports governor-elect Charlie Baker’s recent calls for better fisheries data. The expansion of the observer program would go a long way toward making that happen, he said. That’s not what he’s talking about pickle head. Brian Rothchild and Jim Kendall comment on the ignorance. Read the rest here 20:45
Maritime fisherman finds much success using crack cocaine as bait (satire)
The reaction towards Leonard Grey’s fishing technique around North Lake Prince Edward Island is certainly mixed. After accidentally discovering that local fish are mysteriously attracted to crack cocaine, he has become the area’s most successful fisherman and unapologetically continues to use the narcotic as bait. Read the rest here and click the listen button. 19:58
What’s in a name? State employee’s title called into question during Wednesday’s APOC hearing
It’s all semantics when it comes to one state employee’s defense against being required to file certain financial disclosure forms required of public officials with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Kelly Hepler, whose title with the ADFand G is either “assistant commissioner” or “special projects coordinator,”, should have disclosed that he had received gifts, . Read the rest here 19:42
New Cod Restrictions Will Not Affect Rhode Island Fishermen
Christopher Brown, president of the Rhode Island Commercial Fishermen’s Association, reassures none of these fishing restrictions will have a direct impact on Rhode Island fishermen. Read the rest here 18:48
Groups sue feds over Pacific bigeye fishing rule
The complaint says the rule invents separate catch limits for American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The lawsuit says each U.S. territory can then allocate half of its catch limit to Hawaii-based longline fishing vessels. Read the rest here 17:01
Tanker tangles with fishing vessel anchor line near Boon Island
The Coast Guard plans to investigate an incident in which a 577-foot tanker loaded with ultralight sulfur diesel was adrift off the coast of Portsmouth and got its propulsion system tangled in a 65-foot fishing boat’s anchor line southeast of Boon Island Ledge. Read the rest here 16:35
Lobster boom in Bay of Fundy puzzles scientists
The Bay of Fundy’s lobster population continues to grow, but experts can’t figure out why. Lobster represents Canada’s most valuable fishery and boats in the Bay of Fundy are bringing in record harvests, year after year. Read the rest here 15:51
Locals prepare submittle to create a National Marine Sanctuary along the Central Coast
Tom Hafer, a fisherman and president of the Morro Bay Commercial Fishermen’s Organization, is wary of a new sanctuary in the area because he says it would further restrict access for commercial fishing in an area that doesn’t need new regulations. “We already have enough protection of the ocean on this part of the coastline,” Hafer said. Read the rest here 15:21
Gulf of Maine Cod: “It’s more hysteria that seems to be driving management right now, and not thoughtful approaches to meeting the law,”
After an emergency move by federal officials last week to close commercial and recreational cod fishing in parts of the Gulf of Maine, the is in Newport this week mapping out a long-term plan for fishermen throughout the region. Video, and Read the rest here 12:31
Tags on fish may act as ‘dinner bell’ for seals
Sound-emitting tags fitted to fish to track their survival may, paradoxically, be alerting predator seals to their whereabouts, said scientists Wednesday who warned of a “dinner bell” effect. “We showed that acoustic tags… aid prey detection, Read the rest here 12:07
Huge USF&WS investigation in northern Michigan and Northeastern Wisconsi- probe Great Lakes commercial fishing – Video
The targets included members of numerous tribes in Wisconsin and Michigan, including the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, the Red Cliff Band of Chippewa Indians and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. The investigation also includes non-natives. Read the rest here 10:35
Aquaculture research proposed for abandoned fish plant in Souris by former AquaBounty employees
The Canadian operation is made up of former employees of AquaBounty, a genetically-modified salmon producer that also has its base in eastern P.E.I. CATC has its eye on the old fish plant in Souris, which shut down three years ago. Read the rest here 09:42
Hey! This is Big! Biggest Bristol Bay sockeye run in 20 years forecast for 2015
The biggest run of Bristol Bay salmon in 20 years is projected to slam nets and reach spawning grounds in 2015, presenting a bounty for commercial fishermen and a challenge for processors. Read the rest here 07:54
Hold on Rear Admiral’s Promotion as South Carolina and Oregon Lawmakers Urge Coast Guard to Reverse Course on Helicopters
The effort to keep a Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter on the central coast is picking up steam, with the chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation adding his support and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden putting the brakes on one admiral’s promotion. Read the rest here 22:29
